Word: embarks
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...Central Squares) for the Inner Belt. If the highway were built there, according to the Planning Board's reasoning, large numbers of heavy trucks bound for the industrial area in Eastern Cambridge would have to travel through city streets, causing both congestion and noise. Moreover, the city wanted to embark on an ambitious urban renewal program, and it needed to have the highway's location fixed so it could plan the renewal projects around the road...
Radcliffe's deficit is a grave consideration-but not one which should force a substantial number of girls to live in a situation they find intolerable. Mrs. Bunting has been unwise in her decision to embark on an ambitious campaign to raise more funds for a project which many students bitterly oppose. It would be preferable for her to seek additional funds to ensure that girls could move off- campus without ruining Radcliffe's finances...
High Time. Justice Harlan agreed with the order, but also shared the business community's disappointment. It was high time, said Harlan in a concurring opinion, for the court to "at least embark upon the formulation of standards for the application of Section 7 of the Clayton Act to mergers which are neither horizontal nor vertical and which previously have not been considered in depth by this court...
...this group, but they also urge a deeper understanding of the meaning of the Cultural Revolution. Some argue that the Revolution may be the most gigantic experiment in remolding human nature that has ever been attempted--an experiment, which they claim, the Soviet Union could not and dared not embark upon. They point out that there is a considerable difference between Stalinism and Maoism because 1) the Chinese purges are bloodless, 2) the philosophy behind this Revolution is based on a theory of class struggle within a socialist society, and 3) Stalin did not have a plan for establishing "communes...
Cutting Up the Slopes. The vast majority of snowmobilers use their sleds for recreation, find that one five-gallon tank of gas lasts all day and opens up untracked terrain that would otherwise be inaccessible. One 8-man group of diehards is even planning to embark next month from northern Canada on a three-week, 800-mile snowmobile trip to the North Pole, pulling equipment and supplies along on sleds behind them. There is a practical side to snowmobiles too. In the Western states and New England they are replacing snowshoes for telephone linemen, country doctors, trappers, game wardens, farmers...